An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope, Volume 2J. Dodsley, 1782 |
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... Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always refpected † , found him in an unusual agitation of fpirits , even to a trembling . On enquiring the cause , " I have been up all night , replied the old bard ...
... Lord Bolingbroke , happening to pay a morning visit to Dryden , whom he always refpected † , found him in an unusual agitation of fpirits , even to a trembling . On enquiring the cause , " I have been up all night , replied the old bard ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke to POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert Weft , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain ...
... Lord Bolingbroke to POPE , by POPE to Mr. Gilbert Weft , by him to the ingenious friend who communicated it to me * . The rapidity , and yet the perfpicuity of the thoughts , the glow and the expreffiveness of the images , those certain ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke ufed to relate , that his Great Grandfather Ireton , and Fleetwood , being one day engaged in a private drinking party with Cromwell , and wanting VOL . II . E to ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two characters in the manner of ...
... Lord Bolingbroke ufed to relate , that his Great Grandfather Ireton , and Fleetwood , being one day engaged in a private drinking party with Cromwell , and wanting VOL . II . E to ARTEMISIA and PHRYNE are two characters in the manner of ...
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... Lord Bathurst repeatedly affured me , that he had read the whole fcheme of the Effay on Man , in the hand - writing of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a feries of propofitions , which POPE was to verfify and illuftrate . In doing which ...
... Lord Bathurst repeatedly affured me , that he had read the whole fcheme of the Effay on Man , in the hand - writing of Bolingbroke , and drawn up in a feries of propofitions , which POPE was to verfify and illuftrate . In doing which ...
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... Lord Bolingbroke HOME AGAIN ; juft as a ftage - coach ftops at your door to take up a paffenger . " A graceful perfon , * Ver . 373 . Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of ...
... Lord Bolingbroke HOME AGAIN ; juft as a ftage - coach ftops at your door to take up a paffenger . " A graceful perfon , * Ver . 373 . Thofe paffages in Bolingbroke's pofthumous works , that bear the clofeft refemblance to the tenets of ...
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